Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and let them dwell there.

To do the best that I possibly could in my world makes me pretty happy.

This is not an international thriller so much as a fiercely literate attempt to subvert the thriller genre itself.

If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.

I needed New Orleans so badly back in 2006, just somebody to believe in me, somebody to care about me

In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation, but it cannot be an adequate reproduction of the original.

Never claim credit for anything. 'Cause you can't righteously do that. There's luck and grace and accident.

I think I can change the game.

A dead body revenges not injuries.

Money does not make you look expensive, it’s taste.